The index records Louisa Palestina in a manumission entry dated 3 April 1861. This named trace adds to the small number of individual records that show manumission continuing shortly before legal abolition in the Dutch Caribbean.
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What should researchers be careful about when reading Louisa Palestina’s entry?
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The entry preserves a name and manumission record, not a full biography.